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Flint Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Flint? [n] a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing [n] a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River [n] a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony Synonyms \| Synonyms for Flint: Flint River Related Terms \| Find terms related to Flint: adamant \| bone \| brand \| brick \| butane lighter \| cement \| cigarette lighter \| concrete \| diamond \| firebrand \| flambeau \| flint and steel \| granite \| heart of oak \| igniter \| iron \| light \| lighter \| marble \| nails \| oak \| portfire \| rock \| sparker \| spill \| steel \| stone \| taper \| torch See Also \| city \| Empire State of the South \| firestone \| flintstone \| GA \| Georgia \| Great Lakes State \| gunflint \| metropolis \| MI \| Michigan \| Peach State \| river \| silica \| silicon dioxide \| silicon oxide \| urban center \| Wolverine State Flint In Webster's Dictionary \Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. {Plinth}.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. ``A heart of flint.'' --Spenser. {Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}. {Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex. {Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary. {Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. {Flint mill}. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight. {Flint stone}, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. {Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. {Liquor of flints}, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. {To skin a flint}, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

Flint Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flint?

[n] a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
[n] a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
[n] a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flint: Flint River

Flint In Webster's Dictionary

\Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint;
cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh.
akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. {Plinth}.]
1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in
   color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking
   with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very
   hard, and strikes fire with steel.

2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used,
   esp. in the hammers of gun locks.

3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding,
   like flint. ``A heart of flint.'' --Spenser.

{Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}.

{Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex.

{Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary.

{Flint implements} (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by
   men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows,
   spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of
   flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard
   stones.

{Flint mill}.
   (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground.
   (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner
       at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were
       made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light,
       but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight.

{Flint stone}, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.

{Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face
   of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints
   set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.

{Liquor of flints}, a solution of silica, or flints, in
   potash.

{To skin a flint}, to be capable of, or guilty of, any
   expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

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